Public sector jobs boom causes controversy

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Take heart! For the first in a very long and depressing time there is finally some glimmer of hope indicating that there may be hope fore the economy. Despite the appalling loss of jobs in the private sector totalling nearly a million jobs in private industry and commerce in just 15 months, the recession has apparently been overcome in the public sector which has seen an unprecedented rise in employment of over 300,000.

The raw data is pretty simple. At the end of June there were more than six million workers in the public sector, up by 304,000 on the previous year. If you compare this to the dismal efforts of the private sector ? over the same 15-month period the number of employees in the private sector dropped by 919,000 ? then you begin to get an idea of the bigger picture.

However, all may not be as it seems. Despite this seeming like a good thing, many critics pointed out that many of these new public sector jobs do not appear to have been the 'front-line' staff such as teachers, nurses and policemen, the jobs ministers attributed the rise to. They claim this rise is attributed to a wasteful recruitment strategy by local governments.

Some of the more right wing newspapers have been beside themselves, claiming that recent figures show that the number of teachers has actually dropped over the past few months. The Daily Mail was quite content to claim that the only reason the statistic was so high was because regional town halls keep recruiting people to the kind of posts regularly mocked as 'non-jobs'.

The Tory spokesman for Work and Pensions was more than happy to comment on this story. 'This growing disparity between jobs in the public and private sectors is unsustainable. 'It is important to protect frontline services such as doctors and nurses but its time that Labour recognised they cannot continue to casually spend taxpayers' money.'

However, for those seeking to find some relief in the numbers then these most recent figures will at least give some sort of hope. The fact that an area is showing positive signs is of great comfort in times when some major economists are saying that unemployment is still heading for a total of three million.

For those of you canny enough to be wanting to get in on this boom then you need to act quickly. Get out there and start looking. The first place I would recommend would be the Guardian Jobs supplement or their online counterpart, and then I would go to any of the local government branches, town halls and the like. If public jobs are going to be advertised anywhere it will be here.

While some voices are always going to decry the efforts of the government in trying to turn about the recession, others are actually beginning to voice hopes that the end may be in sight. In the meantime however, for those caught at the hard end it is all you can do just to keep you head up and keep looking. These statistics can be politically skewed either way, but they do seem to indicate progress. And progress we need.

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Mercy Rafla is a keen writer about secretarial jobs and he is specialised in public sector jobs. This article was inspired by the Guardian Jobs website.

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